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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN (2025)

Megan Hathaway is in charge of Sunbright Middle School's talent show, and everything is going wrong. Animals are running wild backstage, Vice Principal Fisher is out for blood, and Megan's friend Olivia might be turning into a zombie. Can you help Megan salvage this mess, or will you doom her to an eternity in the school's basement? With more than twenty-five different endings, Talent Show Trouble is a misadventure you'll be coming back to over and over.

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240
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN NEWSROOM NONSENSE (C: 0-1-0)

Vol. 3

CA$31.04

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN NEWSROOM NONSENSE (C: 0-1-0)

Release: April 24, 2024

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN SCIENCE FAIR FRENZY (C: 0-1-0)

Vol. 2

CA$31.04

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN SCIENCE FAIR FRENZY (C: 0-1-0)

Release: June 21, 2023

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN TALENT SHOW TROUBLES

Vol. 1

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN TALENT SHOW TROUBLES

Release: April 12, 2023

Reading Order

  1. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN TALENT SHOW TROUBLES

    Megan Hathaway is in charge of Sunbright Middle School's talent show, and everything is going wrong. Animals are running wild backstage, Vice Principal Fisher is out for blood, and Megan's friend Olivia might be turning into a zombie. Can you help Megan salvage this mess, or will you doom her to an eternity in the school's basement? With more than twenty-five different endings, Talent Show Trouble is a misadventure you'll be coming back to over and over.

  2. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN SCIENCE FAIR FRENZY (C: 0-1-0)

    In this second volume of the What Happens Next series, you can decide if Megan will come out on top in the Sunbright Middle School's Science Fair . . . or if it will all blow up in her face. Megan Hathaway came to Sunbright Middle School's Science Fair expecting to have fun-she and her friend Charlotte had prepared a presentation on crow calls, and their table gave her a great view of her crush. But somehow, everything is going wrong. There are lemons all over the hallways, Megan's parents insist on embarrassing her, and rumor has it that the monstrous Sunbright Muck Man is trudging through the school! Can YOU help Megan get through this day with her dignity and her life?! With over twenty-five different parallel realities to explore in Science Fair Frenzy, there's gotta be at least one where Megan gets a happy ending . . . right?!* *We cannot confirm the existence of a good timeline in Science Fair Frenzy.

  3. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT HC GN NEWSROOM NONSENSE (C: 0-1-0)

    In the third and final volume of the What Happens Next? series, you decide whether Megan Hathaway saves school journalism or has her dreams crushed by the banal evils of bureaucracy! Megan Hathaway was supposed to be helping put together a newspaper for her English class, but everything is going wrong! Weird Randall keeps trying to mail potatoes, evil vice-principal Mr. Fisher has imprisoned the class's best artist, and, oh geez, Olivia just yarked in a trombone! Can you help Megan save school journalism? Or will you let the secret history of Sunbright Middle School remain hidden forever? With more than twenty-five different endings, Newsroom Nonsense is a misadventure you'll be coming back to over and over.

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